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" And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys" a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the... "
The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author - Page 290
by John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806
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The library. The village. The newspaper. The parish register. The birth of ...

George Crabbe - 1834 - 358 pages
...man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many...burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeWood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond Hfe, It is true,...
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The Prose Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many...earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age...
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Select Prose Works, Volume 1

John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many...earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age...
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The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 1; Volume 7

1836 - 694 pages
...God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself; kills the image of God, as it wore, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifi-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." We could...
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The cynosure, select passages from the most distinguished writers [ed. by ...

Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...Man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good Book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many...the earth; but a good Book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. MILTON. MY way must...
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Biblical Repository and Quarterly Observer

1837 - 1068 pages
...man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many...earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 3

Englishmen - 1837 - 494 pages
...man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many...earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true no age can...
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Systematic Catalogue of Books in the Collection of the Mercantile Library ...

New York (N.Y.). Mercantile Library Association, Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York - 1837 - 530 pages
...reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the ima^-.1 ut God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burthen to the earth ; but a good oook is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured...
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The Hesperian, Volume 2

William Davis Gallagher, Otway Curry - 1838 - 516 pages
...man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many...earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age...
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A Lecture on the Writings: Prose and Poetic, and Character, Public and ...

Alfred Augustus Fry - 1838 - 68 pages
...kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book hills reason itself, hills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man...earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose, to a life beyond life. It is true no age...
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